a complete introduction to disco 4 CD box set

A COMPLETE INTRODUCTION TO DISCO



Release Date: August 30th 2010



Label: Universal Music



Cat No: 5328514



Format: 4CD Hardcover book / Digital



For many it's impossible to imagine a time when disco wasn’t dressed up in a white designer suit with gold chains and a medallion around its neck. After the ‘Saturday Night Fever’ film and soundtrack went stratospheric in 1978 such was the impact of the genre on music it seemed that the only way established rock acts like Blondie, The Rolling Stones and Rod Stewart could keep up was to “go disco”, too. Before long the backlash began, culminating in a riotous ‘disco demolition night’ in Chicago’s Comiskey Park during a White Sox game when hundreds of disco records were blown up. The event resulted in several injuries and the demonization of the genre, which was apparently pronounced ‘dead’ in 1980.



But the rock reactionaries were to be proved wrong - we now know that disco lived on, in just about every permutation of dance and pop music since those heady, hedonistic dancing days of the 1970s. For the first time, Universal Music Catalogue’s 4-CD set ‘The Complete Introduction To Disco’ takes a chronological, decade-long journey tracing the metamorphosis and development of the genre from its roots in soul, funk and Motown into a form that effortlessly absorbed European electronica, Latin percussion, big bands, African grooves, thumping beats and gospel-influenced vocals. Indeed, once the disco scene was set – first in New York City before making waves all over the world - the 1970s period gave birth to modern clubland as we would recognise it today. It would be disco music that would, for the first time ever, soundtrack the coming together of a melting pot of sexes, races and sexualities…one nation under a disco groove.



Beautifully packaged and compiled in consultation with those at the centre of the storm at the time, and after exhaustive research into club DJ playlists and DJ charts, ‘The Complete Introduction To Disco’ throws the spotlight on disco’s

groundbreaking producers, vocalists, DJs and house bands, many of whom provide quotes and anecdotes for the set’s detailed sleevenotes. It contains the landmark records from the time – such as Diana Ross’s ‘Love Hangover’ and Donna Summer’s ‘I Feel Love’ – alongside overlooked classics that lit up the dance floors of the 1970s. Choc-full of some of the most musically adventurous and life-affirming music ever made, it’s both a serious attempt to rescue the genre from those white suit and medallion connotations AND the box set you can dance to.

Yowsah!



A COMPLETE INTRODUCTION TO DISCO: TRACK LISTING



Part One: First Steps



Love's Theme Love Unlimited Orchestra

Backstabbers The O Jays

Law Of The Land The Temptations

Soul Makossa Manu Dibango

Black Skin Blue Eyed Boys The Equals

Hot Pants…I'm Coming I'm Coming Bobby Byrd

Get Ready Rare Earth

Beggin' Timebox

Everyday People Sly & The Family Stone

I'll Take You There The Staple Singers

Theme From Shaft Isaac Hayes

Tell Me What You Want Jimmy Ruffin

Hey Girl Come And Get It The Stylistics

Rock Your Baby (Parts 1 & 2) George McCrae

Love Don't You Go Through No Changes On Me - Sister Sledge

Girl You Need A Change Of Mind Eddie Kendricks

Satin Soul Gene Page

Blue Eyed Soul Carl Douglas

Doctor's Orders Carol Douglas

Shame Shame Shame Shirley & Company

Machine Gun The Commodores



Part Two: Happy People



The Hustle Van McCoy & The Soul City Symphony

Get Down Tonight KC & The Sunshine Band

Never Can Say Goodbye Gloria Gaynor

It's In His Kiss Linda Lewis

Forever Came Today Jackson 5

Walking In Rhythm The Blackbyrds

Dreaming A Dream (Disco Version) Crown Heights Affair

It Only Takes A Minute Tavares

Ten Percent Double Exposure

That's Where The Happy People Go The Trammps

Young Hearts Run Free Candi Staton

Open Sesame (Part 1) Kool & The Gang

Down To Love Town The Originals

Love Hangover Diana Ross

Turn The Beat Around Vicki Sue Robinson

Cherchez La Femme / Se Si Bon Dr Buzzard's Original Savannah Band



Part Three: Disco In Excelsis!



Don't Leave Me This Way Thelma Houston

Let No Man Put Asunder First Choice

Cocomotion (Part 1) El Coco

Love In C Minor Cerrone

I Feel Love Donna Summer

From Here To Eternity Giorgio Moroder

Dance, Dance, Dance (Yowsah, Yowsah, Yowsah) - Chic

I Need A Man Grace Jones

Romeo & Juliet Alec R Costandinos

Risky Changes Bionic Boogie

In the Bush Musique

Let's Start The Dance Bohannon

You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real) Sylvester

Souvenirs Voyage



Part Four: Take Me Home



Vertigo - Relight My Fire Dan Hartman

After Dark Pattie Brooks

The Runner Three Degrees

Take That To The Bank Shalamar

Dance With You Carrie Lucas

Dancer Gino Soccio

Space Bass Slick

Can't Live Without Your Love Tamiko Jones

I Need Your Lovin' Teena Marie

Casanova Coffee

The Boss Diana Ross

Take Me Home Cher

Last Dance Donna Summer